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Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance

Original title: Kunst ja külm sõda

2024 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West.

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West. It recalls a time when art was larger and more important than life itself. But also a time, the like of which Estonian art has never seen and most likely will never see again. On one side, there are independent Soviet artists who lack not only the output but also the finances to complete their works. On the other side, there is the tempting West whose ambassadors (in the literal sense) take active interest in the Soviet underground art market. Selling one’s works to the West is a ...
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Big Boy Playground

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Aaron Thor Härm

Documentary tells a story of a monotonous life at the rescue commando enriched by intense challenges.

The film delves into the paradoxical life of a rescue commando, where the routine of monotonous, day-to-day tasks is sharply contrasted by moments of high-stakes intensity. While much of their time is spent waiting, training, and enduring boredom, the true test of their skills comes in unpredictable outcalls that demand split-second decisions and immense physical and mental strength.
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Photo Album

Original title: Fotoalbum

2024 | Other categories | Director: Joosep Ehasalu
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Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.

A housewife confronts situations to which no sane response exists... The film is an experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969. An experimental collage creating an alternative narrative to the storylines in the animations, documentaries and feature films of that time period.
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Sierra

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director:

A boy accidentally turns himself into a car tire.

Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
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A Trace of Fire

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Diego Alejandro Barajas

The trace of a fire that burns everything.

Sander, a young man full of rage, burns his father's car without realizing that his father was sleeping drunk inside of it, or at least that's what he thinks until a man destroys his version of the events.
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Burning porcelain

Original title in Estonian: Põlev portselan

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film is made by first year film students. It tells a story of accepting one’s new self after a traumatic accident.

A young woman in a wheelchair, Eleonor, returns to her childhood home. The objects in her room remind her of the time before the accident. She tries to get her old self back but is forced to face the truth - the scars and the wheelchair are a part of her new self.
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Four Stones

Original title: Neli kivi

2021 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Francesco Rosso

I’m the monk and the lover, I’m the chosen one and the abandoned one, I’m the inbreath and the outbreath.

A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and his fellas to cope with their miseries. A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and ...
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Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova
Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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